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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: the ring of worshippers jumped and roared, the general direction
of the mass motion being from left to right in endless Bacchanal
between the ring of bodies and the ring of fire.
It may have
been only imagination and it may have been only echoes which induced
one of the men, an excitable Spaniard, to fancy he heard antiphonal
responses to the ritual from some far and unillumined spot deeper
within the wood of ancient legendry and horror. This man, Joseph
D. Galvez, I later met and questioned; and he proved distractingly
imaginative. He indeed went so far as to hint of the faint beating
of great wings, and of a glimpse of shining eyes and a mountainous
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